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This past weekend, over 2,000 members of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section, convened in Denver, CO, to take part in an information packed three day event which highlighted some of the most critical issues facing business lawyers today. The Task Force on RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification), of which I am a contributor, […]
According to McAfee, Corp., they recently stated that total economic loss due to data theft and security breaches thanks to organized crime, malicious hackers, and inside jobs totaled $1 trillion dollars in 2008. The report released by McAfee also highlights the rise in "cyber-mafia," which breaks into corporate databases and targets executives by extorting money […]
With the Fourth of July approaching, and we as Americans begin to celebrate our indepedence and freedoms, a debate in Congress will be left stalled in the Senate over whether to renew The Protect America Act. Scott Louis Weber, a partner for the D.C. law firm Patten Boggs and former senior counsel to the […]
The United States Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individuals right to own a gun at home for self-defense purposes. Since this landmark ruling, there has been a great amount of commentary on just what the ramifications will mean to the […]
Recently, I wrote an article about Avvo.com winning a lawsuit filed in the New Jersey courts requesting that the Garden State’s bar association turn over records of active lawyers practicing in that state. After writing that article I decided to take a further look at what Avvo.com could do for my law practice, and so […]
The 2008 election season is in full swing. Democrats and Republicans are jockeying for their constituents votes by pandering to their respective party’s base, and hoping that independent voters will put them over the top to get elected. In some states, like Washington, this is extended into the third branch of government – the […]
On Tuesday, April 1, 2008, the New Jersey judiciary notified Seattle-based internet company, Avvo, Inc., that it has complied with the company’s request to release information on tens of thousands of lawyers in that state. According to its website, Avvo is a web-based company that rates and profiles lawyers for search purposes by the […]
In the Summer of 2007, as my family made our way back from a wedding in Germany, we had a 5 day stopover in Scotland, and decided to head to St. Andrews. As a golfing aficionado, this was a pilgrimage that I eagerly looked forward to. As it turned out, I was able to spend […]